Geography Minor

What is Geography?

Geography is, quite simply, the study of the “why of where?” But as a wide-ranging discipline that also studies everything about the world, it is much more so. Literally, geography means to write about the world. Geographers study human-environment relationships, and how the spaces that we occupy and create are used to affect power relationships.

As a Geographer, you will study closely the world in which you live, how it affects you, and why it does so. Specific topics that you will study include:

How people construct places and why they construct those places in the ways that they do;

How politics is very much shaped by the environment, but also how the environment is shaped by politics;

How change in one place may affect change in another place that often times most people think is completely unrelated;

You will learn to think deeply about the spaces, places, scales, and contexts of your life!